Nobody likes to be compared to a monkey but not knowing that we are closely related to monkeys. Some may even consider monkey and humans cousins. Clearly we are extremely different from monkeys like …show more content…
As stated on the textbook “regardless of which theory (single- origins, multiregional, or intermediate) is correct, it seems clear that Neandertals and modern humans (H. sapiens sapiens) coexisted in Europe and Near East for at least 20,000 years, and maybe as long as 60,000 years.”they were also known to have a lot of similarities. As stated on livescience.com ,on the article Neanderthals: Facts About Our Extinct Human Relatives “The American Museum of Natural History states that other differences from humans are a flaring, funnel-shaped chest, a flaring pelvis, and robust fingers and toes. Their brains, however, grew at a similar rate to humans’ and were about the same size or larger. “ it has been debated whether to just consider neanderthals part of the homo sapiens species or have them both stand individually since they come so close in comparison. Of course homo sapiens are much more modern than neandertals. According to the textbook Anthropology “ Boule’s reconstruction of a Neandertal, as displayed at chicago’s field museum in 1929, illustrates how subjective fossil re-constructions can be. It falsely implies that Neandertals could not stand upright or straighten their knees, and that they were more primitives than we know today.” It is not really known how Neandertals really became extinct. The theory is that they interbred with humans but it’s not proven as of